Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall